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Ethan Haines is on a hunger strike. As the self-appointed spokesman for all law students, he is “disillusioned by law school employment statistics, commercial school rankings, and antiquated career counseling programs.” Evidently, he’s “being the change” he wants to see. (What does that even mean anyway? I want my law school to do more to [...] Have I told you my new favorite joke? Most don’t find it funny. Frankly, I love it. I crack myself every time I tell it. That’s probably because I’ve never been much of a joke teller and this one qualifies more as a witty rejoin than full on joke. Anyway, goes something like this… Someone: Wow! Entering your last year [...] Pardon my ending of our recent hiatus with a bit of whining… Sometimes the accumulated fatigue of working full-time and going to law school part-time catches up with you and you need a day off. This normal mental health breather is to be expected. Other times school and work stand in direct conflict. Even when you are [...] Today, I’m reading this interesting debate over at the New York Times website, asking the question whether MBA students are “students” or “consumers.” I wouldn’t say the arguments made are earth shattering or particularly insightful. But the question posed is an interesting, albeit purely theoretical, one to me. So pardon the completely impractical discussion, but [...] Catholic University Law School Professor, Robert Destro, was quoted in this New York Times piece about the prospects for e-textbooks in the classroom… Electronic textbooks may one day offer a convenient way to study, said Ms. Epps, literally lightening a student’s load. That’s already happened at Catholic University of America in Washington, where Robert A. Destro, [...] This was a quote at the bottom of a page of our Criminal Procedure syllabus. Hubbell refers to United States v. Hubbell, a case that grew out of Ken Starr’s Whitewater investigation (which, of course, grew into the Monica Lewinsky investigation, President Clinton’s impeachment, etc). The case itself is significant in that it dealt with the questions [...] Our law school has a new website. It’s an improvement in look and feel. In integrating the design of the University’s page, it serves as an important reminder of the law school’s connection to the college. This connection is often forgotten, but with the increased visibility and popularity of interdisciplinary approaches to the law (law and economics, [...] |
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